GRADE 6 - The Quarry Lane School
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2020 Summer Reading List
Middle School Grades 6 – 8
In each grade level, students will have one required book. Aside from the required grade level
book, students are also required to read one fiction and one non-fiction book from their
respective grade lists below.
At the beginning of the school year, students will complete graded assignments related to their
summer reading as directed by their respective English teachers. These assignments will
include both a written and an oral component.
Students are encouraged to read additional books based on their grade level once they satisfy
their requirement.
GRADE 6
- Required Book -
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (Nonfiction, Standard Version)
- 6th Grade: Fiction (Read One) -
The King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Tracking Trash by Loree Griffin Burns
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM by Robert C. O'Brien
Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine
Peak by Roland Smith
When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue ParkThe Seer of Shadows by Avi
Throwing Heat by Fred Bowen
A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
Powerless by Matthew Cody
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
How To Get Rich in the California Gold Rush by Tod Olson
Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer
Esparanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (Series)
Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPraue
Black Stallion by Walter Farley
- 6th Grade: Non-Fiction (Read One) -
Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin F. Denzel
Anooka’s Answer by Marjorie Cowley
Ancient Agriculture: From Foraging to Farming by Michael Woods and Mary B. Woods
Babylonians: Cradle of Civilization by Eleaine Landau
Ancient Egypt by John Malam
Growing Up in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David
Lost Cities of the Ancient World by Joel Levy
India: The Land by Bobbie Kalman
Science in Ancient India by Melissa Stewart
Ancient China by Arthur Cotterell
Ten Suns: A Chinese Legend by Eric Kimmel
Stranger on the Silk Road: A Story of Ancient China by Jessica Gunderson
The Greeks: Life in Ancient Greece by Michelle Levine
Socrates: The Public Conscience of Golden Age Athens by Jun LimThe Estruscans by Don Nardo
Constantine: Ruler of Christian Rome by Julian Morgan
Legacies from Ancient Rome by Anita Ganeri
At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England by Walter Dean Myers
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
GRADE 7
- Required Book -
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- 7th Grade: Fiction (Read One) -
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (Series)
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Divergent by Veronica Roth (Series)
Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Series)
Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Maximum Ride by James Patterson (Series)
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Keeper’s Tattoo by Gill ArbuthnottShip Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (Series)
Deadly by Julie Chibbaro
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Snow Falling in Spring by Moying Li
Paper Towns by John Green
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- 7th Grade: Non-Fiction (Read One) -
Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal - the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
Francis: The Poor Man of Assissi by Tomie dePaola
Joan of Arc: The Lily Maid by Margaret Hodges
Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett
The Life of the Prophet Muhammad by Leila Azzam
The Crusades by John Child
Empires of Medieval West Africa by David C. Conrad
Ancient Chinese Dynasties by Eleanor J Hall
Science in Ancient China by George W. Beshore
The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Boy and the Samurai by Erik Christian Haugaard
Aztecs and Maya: What Life was Like for Ancient Civilizations in Central America by Fiona
MacDonald
Machu Picchu: The Story of the Amazing Incas and Their City in the Clouds by Elizabeth Mann
The Medicis: A Ruling Dynasty by Heather Lehr Wagner
Elizabethan England by Ruth Ashby
The Printing Press: A Breakthrough in Communication by Richard Tames
Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I by Jane Resh ThomasFrancisco Pizarro and the Conquest of the Inca by Gina De Angelis
Galileo and the Universe by Steve Parker
People at the Center of the Enlightenment by Gail B. Stewart
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Heroism, Adventure and Treachery by Steve
Sheinkin
The President Has Been Shot: the Assassination of JFK by James L. Swanson
Red Scarf Girl: A memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang and David Henry Hwang
The Secret Family: 24 Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodies by David
Bodanis
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
GRADE 8
- Required Book -
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
- 8th Grade: Fiction (Read One) -
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Piccoult
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift
Snow Bound by Harry Mazer
Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Shattering Glass by Gail Giles
A Rose for Melinda by Lurlene McDaniels
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents ofElectricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Brian Mealer
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Tiger Moon by Antonia Michaelis
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana DeRosnay
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- 8th Grade: Non-Fiction (Read One) -
Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know about Fast Food by Eric Schlosser & Charles
Wilson
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbievby Tonya Lee Stone
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim
Murphy
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer: The Search for John Wilkes Booth by James L. Swanson
Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice by Phillip Hoose
Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Odyssey to Reunite With His Mother by Sonia Nazario
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books by Gary Paulsen
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors
Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb
This Star Won’t Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl by Esther, Lori & Wayne Earl
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